There goes the BOOM: Neutering the ATF

This really has to be a joke! NO head for 6 years. Insane. This is the most neutered agency in the federal government. This agency needsd to be fired back up, records need to be computerized, and the NRA and those congressmen under its wallet spell need to butt out.

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OR.. we can get come common sense. Put the ATF under the FBI. Why do we have an agency to regulate Alcohol and Tobacco again? Those are legal commodities.

Why do we have an agency that is allowed to define the word “firearm” at their whim? That will declare an item legal, then be allowed to change that definition, making the users of such things into criminals. Perhaps if any candidates were not so anti-gun that they were acceptable?

Besides, why do they need a head of agency? They seem to be able to run guns to Mexico quite well, as is.

I saw this segment. It’s infuriating. It’s very frustrating that the NRA works against the cause of law and order. It’s also deeply frustrating that this comedy show is the only outlet effectively connecting these dots.

Back to the ATF. The NRA has made it a cause to castrate this agency. Stewart (as often happens) illustrates this through satire and comedy more clearly that mere news coverage. Any Member of Congress complicit with the gun industry in effecting these dilutions, should be placed squarely in the spotlight of public opinion and voted out of office. We can’t tolerate this any longer.

That my friend, CS, doesn’t like the structure of the agency or would have picked a different Administrator if the choice was his, doesn’t detract from the point that the NRA has found willing confederates to undermine the effectiveness of this agency.

Blunt-speaking New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, thought to be eyeing a 2016 run for the Republican presidential nomination, blasted an NRA ad that mentions President Barack Obama’s daughters as “reprehensible” and warned it “demeans” the powerful gun-rights group.

“To talk about the president’s children, or any public officer’s children, who have—not by their own choice, but by requirement—to have protection, and to use that somehow to try to make a political point is reprehensible,” Christie said.

I don’t think that the law ever presented any evidence of that.
Also, why didn’t they just arrest the guy when he was out?
And if they were child abusers, why weren’t they being charged with THAT instead of arms violations?